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ginger growler rory stewart's grinning death's head up against the wall
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No mention of this party? I mean the one that definitely didn't happen and at which the guidelines were followed at all times - except for the one about not having parties obviously although it was really because they never had a party - and anyway Johnson didn't attend it and he followed the guidelines at all times while not being at the party, which he couldn't have been at cos it never happened anyway.
The above reads like a short story by Danil Kharms.
There is one which goes something like "There was a man and he had no face and he had no body and he had no arms or legs and in fact there was nothing to him so we had better not talk about him at all" seems kinda similar no?
woops
is not like other people
not heard of this guy sounds interesting
This sounds like something you might read on https://mobile.twitter.com/kidswritejokes
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Beyond parody at this stage. We need an actual photo from inside the party splashed on the front of the tabloids. Then let the swivelling shits deny it.
mixed_biscuits
The joke is on the citizenry, who treated the rules as if they were actually something thought up by serious people and worthy of respect.
Funnily enough, I've seen that very argument made by Tory supporters... everyone was breaking the rules and was always going to so why complain aboutt them doing it?
To which the obvious answer is that the people who had their parties broken up by the police and got slapped with a massive fine are entitled to complain about it.
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Oh... diddums...
It's so sad to think that her whole career has been ruined by being a silly wanker.
It does seem a bit weird that she is resigning for joking about The Party but none of the people who atttended it are suffereing any consequences at all. I'm capitalising it and calling it The Party as it now clearly deserves that status what with being apparently the most important event that has (not) happened in any* of our lifetimes.
*ok, maybe not Leo's, but the rest of us for sure.
the more of them suffer for holding a piss up the better
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I completely agree. I am loving every second of this story... the details such as the existence of a secret santa being proof that it was pre-meditated are fantastic. It really seems that they have found the one thing people won't stand for; spaff public money on your bit on the side and it's no prob, pursue cack-handed policies that means thousands of unnecessary deaths and no-one gives a shit, waste 37bn on track and trace that never worked, give countless contracts to cronies who pocketed the money and failed to deliver, make a right royal shit show of brexit so shelves are bare and people are queueing for petrol, get slapped down by the courts for unconstitutional actions, say the wrong thing so a britsh citizen is detained in Iran.... etc etc none of these things seem to matter. But now this stupid party is looking like a real problem for them. I think it rubbed people up the wrong way that they got so many people to issue statements saying "the rules were followed at all times" and then refuse to answer any follow ups about how they knew or how that could be or what that meant in practice - the whole fucking army of robots parroting this obviously dishonest line surely can't have helped. In fact their obvious lying in general... but then again it's not been a problem before so you can understand why they tried it.
I'm also seeing this
Conservative MPs & govt friendly media have been informed by the UK govt that the govt took "discreet legal advice" in the last weeks on whether Covid rules actually "apply to crown properties"… …even as they were insisting in public that no Covid rules were broken.
I think the implication is that they were hoping that it would turn out there was a loophole with the law not applying there and so - once they had had that confirmed - they could have totally switched to "Yeah, there was a fucking party with hundreds of people stuck into one tiny room gorging themselves on expensive liquor and cigars and so on - but laws don't apply there cos it's a crown property so, strictly speaking, as we said in our countless identical statements, no laws were broken at any time - told you so you fucking plebs, we are the rulers and we do what we fucking like so suck it the fuck up you litlte bitches nyaaah nyaaah nyah nyaaah nyahhh"
But that hasn't happened so I am assuming that they didn't get the response they were hoping for.
john eden
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There may have been 3 different parties apparently.
This one might do some damage. An early Xmas present.
Yeah was reading that just now, I already knew about two but now it seems that there were three parties that didn't happen.
Simon Case, the cabinet secretary and the UK's most senior civil servant, would investigate the circumstances surrounding the video and the facts surrounding what happened on 18 December last year.
However, later it emerged that this investigation would not cover another party believed to have taken place in Downing Street on 27 November, at which Johnson himself is said to have given a speech, or a third party alleged by former aide Dominic Cummings to have happened in the prime minister's flat on 13 November. A spokeswoman for Carrie Johnson has previously denied there was a party in the flat on that date.
Either way, Johnson was shocked and angered to see that Allegra woman joking about the party that didn't happen.
Before taking any questions, Johnson told the Commons he was "also furious to see that clip", saying: "I can understand how infuriating it would be to think that the people who have been setting the rules have not been following the rules."
He continued: "I apologise unreservedly for the offence that it has caused up and down the country, and apologise for the impression that it gives."
To jeers from the opposition benches, Johnson said he had no personal knowledge of any party. He said: "I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party, and that no Covid rules were broken."
If there was no party I do sort of wonder why she had to resign for joking about it though. What exactly is it that meant she had to go? Is it cos her joiking about it gave the - obviously completely wrong and misleading - impression that there was a party? Or is it that parties are simply not a joking matter in this day and age and so her laughing about one is the equivalent of someone being racist or homophobic?
I wpuld rather Johnson than Starmer at this point
As PM or as a party host? Anyway, right now the issue is not an either or type thing, forget Starmer for the moment, this is just about the sheer joy of watching a bunch of lying arseholes twisting and turning on an incredibly triival hook of their own making. They obviously want to lie their heads off SPOILER like Orson Welles in F is for Fake after his hour has expired. Of course they want to insist that "there was definitely no party, I have investigated and I know that for certain" but they can't be sure what is out there, what videos were made and may surface, they have to use lots of "I don't recall" and "I am not aware of" in case a video of them doing the conga through the house with a lopsided Christmas crown on their head, kicking their leg totally out of time and spilling sherry all over the carpet. It's lovely watching them suffer like that.
Do we think Allegra is just a sacrifice? I watched her video again, it makes no sense.
"my remarks seemed to make light of the rules, rules that people were doing everything to obey, that was never my attention, I will regret my remarks for the rest of my days"
So she resigns for a very mild joke about how the regulations should or shouldn't relate to a party that didn't happen? Come on.
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Here's a situation: your project's initial coin offering (ICO) was a success. Your crypto-wallets are full of Bitcoins, Ether, Litecoins and any other cryptocurrency you were accepting contributions in. Now is the time to celebrate and start putting the collected funds to use.
However, regardless of how much you managed to raise in cryptocurrencies, you will still need to make a lot of settlements in fiat currencies like the US dollar or euro. Be it paying for legal services, PR-campaigns, rent, bills, late night food deliveries and whatever else, you will need to cash out your proceeds.
Of course, while there are some advertising agencies and legal firms which might accept payments in cryptocurrencies, most third parties as well as your own employees will demand to be paid in their local currencies.
Withdrawing cryptocurrencies to fiat, especially when it comes to large amounts, is a very daunting process. But if you've properly prepared for your ICO campaign, you and your legal team should already have a solution to this.
Why is the process so complicated?
These days, a lot of banks all around the world are exploring and making use of Blockchain technology. However, the absolute majority of banks are still extremely conventional, and despite adopting Blockchain, they really don't like anything to do with cryptocurrencies.
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That's because banks will require your project to comply with Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) policies. So, expect the bank's representatives getting in touch with you to try and find out exactly how 'clean' your funds are, asking you questions about Source Of Funds (SOF) and Source Of Wealth (SOW). Most likely, you will be required to verify virtually every contribution, no matter how big or small.
Even after you've done all that and managed to set up an account, you'll always have a threat of the account being shut down. Some key words, such as Bitcoin, ICO, Ether, TGE and so on might lead to your account being closed and your transactions being reported as suspicious and potentially fraudulent.
Cashing out via an exchange is a different story, but it's equally as complicated. To begin with, you usually need to have a bank account linked to your profile in order to be able to withdraw funds from an exchange. Eventually, after a long verification period, you will have to make your peace with long waiting times and high transaction fees.
Then, of course, there is the hurdle of finding a suitable and trusted exchange that operates in your local fiat currency and is legal in your jurisdiction.
As always, we are warning you against keeping your funds in a wallet provided by an exchange. Remember, you are never in control of such wallets. There have been many instances of exchanges being hacked and losing all the money stored on them or simply running away with people's funds.
Cashing out small amounts
Trying to withdraw the entire $15 mln you've just raised will be a logistical nightmare, which will inevitably raise a lot of suspicion and most likely result in your project being investigated by authorities. The best strategy here would be cashing out small amounts that the project actually needs every other month or so.
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Get yourself or your employees a prepaid Visa or MasterCard that you can top-up with cryptocurrencies and use it to pay online and offline at bricks-and-mortar stores using any Point Of Sale (POS). You can get one of those via Monaco, TenX, Bitwala and others.
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THE ATTACK BY FASCISTS ON JEWS ON THE EILAT HIGHWAY IS PART OF THE DRIVE TOWARDS A WORLD FASCIST DICTATORSHIP
Posted on August 21, 2011 by Felix Quigley
This shows the building destroyed by the car bombing in Ben Yehuda street at Jerusalem on Feb 22, 1948
during the Palestine War of 1948.
This was organised by Hajj Amin al-Husseini's men. 52 Jewish civilians kild and 123 injured
The Jewish people following the attack from Sinai, which was highly organised, on Southern Israel, near Eilat on the Eilat Highway, by Fascists is a great turning point because it comes after the effects of the so-called Arab Spring
This Arab Spring was from the beginning merely the assault weapon for bringing the Nazi Muslim Brotherhood into power, or into positions where it can influence the drive to Sharia Law inside Arab countries, and where Sharia will be used to batter down all opposition and install clerical fascist dictatorship, especially onto the Muslim poor, where all opposition to the effects of world wide capitalist crisis is impossible, or met with Sharia repression.
TIME IS THE GREAT FACTOR IN ALL LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONS SUCH AS THIS
FOLLOWING THE EILAT HIGHWAY ATTACK THE ISRAELI LEADERSHIP OF BIBI/BARAK HAS RUN OUT OF TIME (AND OPTIONS)
THEY ARE PARALYSED BY A BUNCH OF FASCISTS CONTROLED BY IRAN AND COWER INSIDE THEIR ENDLESS MEETINGS LIKE THE FRIGHTENED RABBITS THEY ARE
CRISIS OF JEWISH LEADERSHIP IS SIMILAR TO CRISIS LEAD UP TO 1939
THE DEBKA REPORT OF TODAY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS DISCUSSED:
Tehran pulls strings of Gaza missile war, proxy Jihad Islami leads offensive
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 21, 2011, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Iran Gaza Israel US Egypt Palestinian Jihad Islami
Iran's trap for Israel on Eilat Highway
The role of Iran and Hizballah in manipulating the ongoing Palestinian war on Israel from Gaza is manifest, debkafile's military sources report. They planned, orchestrated and funded the coordinated attacks on the Eilat Highway Thursday, Aug. 18 – in which gunmen shot dead eight Israelis and injured 40 – and its sequel: volleys of 90 missiles launched day and night from Gaza against a million Israeli civilians since then.
Yossi Ben-Shoshan, 38, from Ofakim, was killed by one of the dozen Grad missiles hitting Beersheba and his home town Saturday night. More than a dozen people were injured, at least one critically.
The prime mover in the missile blitz is Tehran's Palestinian arm, the Jihad Islami, which is responsible for 90 percent of the launches. Hamas is left on the sidelines, cut off for the first time from top levels of authority in Tehran and Damascus.
The IDF is held back from substantive action to snuff out the Iran-backed offensive by the indecision at the policy-making level of the Israeli government, which is still feeling its way toward determining the dimensions and potential thrust of the military crisis landing on Israel out of the blue.
Under Egyptian, Israeli and US noses, Tehran managed to transfer to its Palestinian arm in Gaza, the Jihad Islami, more than 10,000 missiles well in advance of the violence launched three days ago. Most of them are heavy Grads bringing Beersheba, capital of the Negev and Israel's 7th largest town (pop. 200,000), within their 30-kilometer range for a sustained, massive missile offensive.
Tehran has now launched the hardware smuggled into the Gaza Strip ready for a Middle East war offensive for five objectives:
1. To leave Syrian President Bashar Assad free to continue brutalizing his population and ignoring President Barack Obama's demand backed by Europe that he step down.
2. To manufacture a direct military threat on the Jewish state, whose destruction is a fundamental of the Islamic Republic of Iran's ideology.
3. To thwart the Egyptian military junta's operation last week for regaining control of the lawless Sinai Peninsula and destroying the vast weapons smuggling network serving Iran in its capacity as the leading international sponsor of terror.
4. To render the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his bid for UN recognition of an independent state on Sept. 20 irrelevant. His isolation was brought home to him last Thursday by the coordinated Palestinian terrorist attacks near Eilat last Thursday.
5. To plant ticking bombs around Israel for potential detonation and explosion into a full-blown regional war.
debkafile's Washington sources disclose that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outlined this peril to Egypt's military ruler, Field Marshall Muhammad Tantawi, Saturday night, Aug. 20, to dissuade him from recalling the Egyptian ambassador to Israel over the deaths of three or five Egyptian police in the melee over the Palestinian terror attack near the Sinai border.
This danger was on the table of Israel's inner cabinet of eight ministers when they met early Sunday to decide on IDF action for terminating the Palestinian missile war.
However, just as Cairo discovered that its operation for eradicating al Qaeda and other Islamist radical groups' grip on Sinai would give Iran the pretext for aggression, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the IDF high command found themselves at a loss to determine whom to attack.
Up until now, Israel declared the Hamas rulers of Gaza accountable for all attacks originating in the enclave.
That formula is no longer valid. The Eilat Highway attacks were planned and executed behind Hamas's back and so was the missile offensive – until Saturday night, when Hamas decided to try and step in. Both Hamas and Cairo are in fact out of the picture.
Israel's leaders are stuck for solutions because no one in Washington, Jerusalem or Cairo can be sure of the outcome of any military steps they might take. They can't be sure whether they will douse the violence or just play into the hands of Hizballah and Tehran who may have more shockers in their quivers ready to loose. (my emphasis FQ)
Only three facts stand out from the fog of uncertainty:
First, the security crisis besetting Israel has the dangerous potential for dragging the Middle East into a regional war.
Second, America and Israel are paying in full the price of their quiescence in the face of Iranian, Hizballah and extremist Palestinian belligerence and active preparations for war, including the stockpiling of thousands of increasingly sophisticated weaponry on Israel's borders.
Third, the first step an Israeli soldier or tank takes into the Gaza Strip to silence Jihad Islami's missile fire is more likely than not to precipitate a second Iranian-orchestrated assault on another of Israel's borders.
Sunday morning, no one in any of the capitals concerned was ready to risk guesstimating how far Tehran was ready to go in its current offensive and what orders Hizballah and its Palestinian puppets had received.
http://www.debka.com/article/21228/
Debka above shows very well how in politics time does not stand still (Time waits for no man)
And Debka is also showing that there is a very new and challenging situation facing the Jews of Israel because of all those happenings in the socalled Arab Spring.
It is thanks to Obama, Cameron, Hague, Sarkozy, and a host of other bourgeois leaders and governments that they have been largely successful in creating this new situation (post Gadhafi, post Mubarak) that is so dangerous for the Jewish people of Israel. The old Jewish idea that you sit there and do nothing does not work in this new world, a Fascist becoming world governed by capitalist world economic crisis
For many months the touchstone of this has been the new Kosovo, Libya, which looks very different to Kosovo but is in essence exactly the same
As Debka.com astutely observes the Eilat attack was a product of this new situation post Arab Spring, post Iraq, post Afghanistan
This is the new situation which the Israeli leadership has to confront
It is very important to understand this Eilat attack and to ask ourselves, Jews and those who support Israel, Jewish or not, how did the Israeli leadership deal with this situation?
But first consider the forces against Israel and the Jews today. They are formidable:
1. The left of Marx, Engels and Trotsky does not exist in todays world
2. The left (therefore surreal and so-called) of today is anti-Semitic
3. The Vatican plays its anti-Jewish role which did not end with the 1990 pronouncements
4. Excepting for the American nationalist Biblical support the forces of Western Christianity are anti-Semitic
5. Conspiracy theorists are driving or have driven the truth movement into anti-Semitism
6. The remnants of Nazism were kept alive in the CIA post 1945
7. The New World Order of George Soros, also linked to left anti-Semitism, but to Norquist and Bush also, is anti-Semitic. Soros glories in having taken part in the suppression of Jews as a small boy in the Holocaust
8. The Arab dagger is still sharp and pointed at Israel
9. The Palestinian Arab narrative has flourished in those conditions.
Finally and most important of all…Obama as President and Mrs Clinton as leader of State has pushed world anti-Semitism, through the Arab Spring, to dangerous levels. This is coming to head in September 20 in the United Nations
One general thought in which to posit the above points is this:
Judaism is an old and benevolent religion which has created the Jewish people as a nation. But if Judaism had an answer for the present conditions of capitalist crisis morphing into Fascism and Antisemitsm it would have produced it in 1939. We know, and Jews know, that it did not.
Jews want to quite naturally put the Holocaust behind them but that HAS TO BE the starting point for today.
If Jews are to continue as a nation and continue to be able to practise their ancient religion and follow their ancient traditions then they must also be able to make a leap in consciousness and practice
THIS IS A COMMENT WHICH APPEARED RECENTLY ON HUFFINGTON POST:
I hope Israel's response is more intelligent than last time. I couldn't believe that they would shell Gaza while at the same time refusing to allow anyone, including women and children, to leave. You would think they sat around thinking of ways to create bad publicity for Israel.
Here is a suggestion. Inform the inhabitants of Gaza that anyone who wishes may leave in the next 72 hours. They can go to Egypt or they can go to the West Bank. Search them for weapons on the way out. Then flatten Gaza. Bomb the whole place to rubble. Allow anyone out who wishes to leave but don't allow anyone in. Eventually the only ones left will be Hamas. Then send in the army with tanks and bulldozers and scrape the whole place down to bare land. This is not an optimal solution but it IS a solution, which is more than anyone else has managed to come up with.
Sunwyn_Ravenwood: I hope Israel's response is more intelligent than last time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Sunwyn_Ravenwood/southern-israel-attacks-sinai-penninsula_n_930168_103738063.html
THAT HUFF POST COMMENT IN A SEA OF ANTISEMITISM ON THAT SITE SHOWS…THERE IS GOOD KNOWLEDGE AMONG MANY JEWS INSIDE ISRAEL OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT JEWS IN ISRAEL HAVE A LEADERSHIP WHICH IS REALLY UNABLE TO TAKE ANY MEANINGFUL DECISIONS, MUCH LESS ACT
MUCH OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT IS GOING WRONG, CONTINUALLY, IS A RESULT NOT OF OSLO (IT ALSO WAS JUST AN EFFECT) BUT AN INABILITY OF JUDAISM LEADERSHIP TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF FASCISM, AS IT COULD NOT EITHER IN 1939
THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS FROM AN ANALYSIS BY INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST (FROM INSIDE ISRAEL) ARLENE KUSHNER MAKES THIS LAGGING BEHIND EVENTS, INABILITY TO ACT ETC. VERY CLEAR:
A glimpse of this reality given by independent journalist Arlene Kushner
I have learned that the Shin Bet had picked up information days ago about an attack initiated from the Sinai that was being planned by the Popular Resistance Committees. Thus, troops — from the Counter-Terrorism YAMAM Unit and the elite Golani Brigade — had already been deployed along the Israel-Sinai border.
The expectation had been that PRC was planning abduction of one or more Israelis, possibly soldiers, in a stealth operation under cover of night. What happened, then, according to reports, diverged from what had been anticipated not only in terms of time of day, but also locale, as the terrorists entered Israel at a point not far from an Egyptian military installation.
The prior intelligence explains how Barak was able to announce so quickly that the source of the attack was Gaza, and why the air strike aimed first for the PRC headquarters.
Without question, the toll of dead and wounded would have been far worse, had the military not already had a presence on the scene. They were able to engage the terrorists almost immediately.
( That puts a kind face on it FQ)
(But perhaps the info was deliberately wrong. Barak was listening to info fed to him by the terrorists, I merely speculate…FQ)
But there are anguished questions that linger in the air with regard to whether the Israeli response was sufficient. Should there have been a far larger deployment along that border, with, perhaps, constant air surveillance?
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amatzia Chen, a former commander of commando units, says, in an article running in Arutz Sheva:
"In the sixties we were able to seal the western border with Egypt such that even a mouse would have thought twice before going too far; it is hard to believe what is happening today."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146962
Are there other actions that should have been taken? The major charge in this regard, and the most serious, involves failure to be pro-active rather than re-active.
General Chen, cited above, says:
"Unfortunately, according to the Oslo framework, once the late Rabin signed the agreements they served as a pretext for the IDF's senior command to act as if it was a peaceful time, and that has failed time after time. That's why what happened in Eilat does not surprise me.
"Instead of responding after the attack, the military system had to act beforehand, against the intentions to attack…"
While Caroline Glick, in her column today, says:
"Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets."
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/08/blood-in-the-streets.php
So what are we talking about here?
If the IDF had intelligence that the PRC was planning a terrorist act, and knew where the PRC headquarters was located, why wasn't it hit before the act took place?
(THE ABOVE FROM WWW.ISRAPUNDIT.COM)
These are indeed wise words from Arlene Kushner. Furthermore they are echoed on my Facebook page by Josh Hasten who knows Caroline Glick. And Caroline Glick understands very well that Israel does not have a leadership which is able to take reality by the scruff of the neck and through its practice create a new reality.
But nothing in this regard is at all simple.
Let me go back some months. Friend of Arlene Kushner is Ted Belman, editor of Israpundit, hard working and patriotic. (these are small circles int he Jewish world) I conflicted with Belman round about February on the issue of Libya. Belman actually was calling,or supporting a call, for the US to bomb Gadhafi, I think the words used were to flatten the Gadhafi air force.
But why should a Jewish leader like Belman take such a position. Gadhafi was OBJECTIVELY the opponent of the Islamist Fascists in the west of Libya, and had been for decades.
Belman was unable to see the relevance of the episode in the 1930s labour history when Leon Trotsky defended also the religious despot Haile Selassie, and did so without a second delay and did so above all unconditionally. DEFENCE AGAINST THE NAZIS.
Question is why did Belman not see this? The answer is that he has turned his face against Trotsky and against Trotskyism. WHICH IS HIS RIGHT BUT IT HAS ITS IMPLICATIONS
Furthermore Arlene Kushner would have read that on Israpundit and would have NOT SAID A WORD
These PARTICULAR KINDS OF JEWISH LEADERS (and they are leaders) can never ask themselves why it was that I and 4international fought so hard WHEN IT WAS UNDERWAY for the victory to Mubarak. In even more graphic form for the victory to Muammar Gadhafi and his political tendency in Libya, which does not depend on any one thing he or his son Saif may say at any point. The general political tendency of the rebellious colonels was towards progression from medieval royalty, and now against medieval and despotic (sharia Law) Islam.
If I can sum up the present Jewish and Israeli leaders, and I talk here not just the Government, but a wide swath of leadership, from Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer (you see I am not just talking about Jews), through Ted Belman, and Arlene Kushner, the dominant characteristic is narrow, insular, inability to learn from the real history since they are caught in their own narrow narrative.
Hence the great issues connected with 1933 go unanswered.
On that last score the writer and professor Francisco Gil White analysed the 1933 defeat to Hitler, and deliberately (maybe he too is ignorant) left out the betrayal of Stalin and the political line fought for by Leon Trotsky, which alone would have saved the Jewish people from the Holocaust.
You see…NARROW. Even Francisco had caught the disease. And narrow very often ends up smug and dismissive.
The defeat of Mubarak has thrown up challenges which the Israeli elite cannot and will not meet
The defeat of Gadhafi will be even worse. Along with Kosovo it opens up the door to the Islam/US/EU/Brit alliance to destroy the Jews. That is their intention and with wind in their sails that is what they will do.
A FINAL NOTE ON THE DEBKA REPORT ABOVE
Debka is part, in the final analysis, of this fateful and faulty analysis.
We ask Debka? What is Iran without the US Imperialists who are driving towards world dictatorship, all parties in America, on the George Soros antisemitic One World theme? In the final analysis Debka seem to be papering over the historical crisis in capitalism, and the drive towards One World dictatorship by a different type of capitalist system. In other words a new Nazism.
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The DB4 GT Zagato: Aston Martin's new Dh30 million ride unveiled at Le Mans
The British car marque is showing off its most expensive new car ever during France's gruelling 24-hour race – but don't expect to see it on the track
You may have to save up for this one – Aston Martin's newest car in its Continuation series is being unveiled at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, ahead of its launch on the market, and it's a pricey little runaround.
If you want one in your garage, you'll have to part with £6 million plus taxes, which is around Dh30 million.
And that's if you can even get one, as Aston Martin is only making 19 of them.
The car won't be racing at Le Mans, but it'll be on display and probably attracting almost as much attention as the vehicles on the track.
The Zagato is part of the manufacturer's DBZ Centenary Collection, and this latest model is a rejig of the 1960s original.
It's faithful to its older sibling in almost every way and boasts a 4.7-litre, 390hp version of the earlier DB4 GT Continuation model, which was the manufacturer's first update of one of its classic models.
Why 19 of the Zagato? Well, that's the number Aston Martin made of the original.
Those lucky enough to get their hands on one can expect delivery later this year.
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Formally launched the second phase of the Project, which seeks to promote the alignment of TMB estimates through the creation of a universal reference standard using human tumor cell lines.
The TMB Harmonization Project focuses on three components that would benefit from standardization: defining TMB, establishing an analytical validation approach, and ensuring optimal clinical implementation. It was agreed that to achieve these goals a multi-step approach was necessary, where diagnostic companies would seek agreement on analytical and clinical validation studies to support a standardized method of TMB measurement and reporting. The three phases consist of an in silico TMB analysis using publicly available data from TCGA, an empirical TMB analysis using publicly available human tumor cell lines, and a clinical analysis using clinical samples.
Eleven diagnostic partners (ACT Genomics Co., Ltd, AstraZeneca, Caris Life Sciences, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Guardant Health, Inc., Illumina, Inc., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center [MSKCC], NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc., Personal Genome Diagnostics [PGDx], QIAGEN, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific) analyzed in silico data to assess the correlation between TMB calculated using whole exome sequencing (WES) and a uniform analytical method agreed upon the diagnostic participants, and TMB calculated using their own gene panels and methodologies. All participants used the same data for this analysis (the Multi-Center Mutation Calling Multi-tumor Completion effort, or MC3 TCGA data), which consisted of thousands of samples from various cancer types. The goal of this initial step of the project was, for the first time, to compare how the bioinformatic approaches impact TMB calculations and how closely the different tests relates to one another.
The results showed that TMB determined by the different tests is relatively consistent across a range of mutational burden, and that despite the various methods employed to analyze and count mutations, the in silico analysis results demonstrated that TMB as evaluated by the eleven diagnostic partners is in a close enough range that further alignment is achievable. Moreover, TMB by cancer type was also analyzed, and differences were observed in the distribution of TMB values by cancer type. It was suggested that some of these differences may be attributed to biology, however, other factors such as batch effects needed to be explored in more detail.
Based on this initial analysis, several suggestions were proposed that would improve the analytical validation of this novel biomarker. The final in silico TMB data will be used for the development of a manuscript to be submitted for publication at a peer-reviewed journal and a late-breaking abstract oral presentation to take place at the Society for Immunotherapies in Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting in November of 2018.
In the second phase of the project cell line samples will be used with the aims of finding agreement upon the creation of a universal TMB reference standard based on WES and assessing the correlation between panel-derived TMB score and the universal reference standard. From these initial analyses, a set of cell lines with high concordance across panels can be selected to serve as future reference materials.
An initial group of 14 matched tumor/normal cancer cell line samples that harbor a range of TMB values will be evaluated to define a universal reference standard. The team has selected commercially available matched lung and breast cancer cell lines for which preliminary analysis reveals a broad range of TMB values. The TMB values of these cancer cell lines will be calculated using WES and a uniform analytical method as agreed upon by the diagnostic partners. The growth and maintenance of these cell lines, as well as the isolation of DNA will be performed by our collaborators at SeraCare Life Sciences. Inc. The Molecular Characterization (MoCha) Laboratories at the Frederick National Laboratories who will serve as the neutral, credentialed, and validated central laboratory that will conduct the WES of the cell lines and calculate TMB using a uniform method previously agreed by the partners. Panel developers will also calculate TMB using their own panels and bioinformatic methods.
The WES-derived TMB values will be optimized as a reference standard. The reference standard will be used as an alignment tool to make TMB values calculated using different gene panels comparable to one another, thus providing consistency during TMB reporting.
Data from phase 2 is expected to be generated and analyzed during winter 2018-2019. PrecisionFDA, a cloud-based next-generation DNA sequencing data platform that allows researchers to upload and compare data against reference genomes, will be utilized to store the data generated from phase 2 and will streamline the analyses.
Working group members discussed the need to validate the utility of cell lines serving as a reference standard and the desire to analyze a representative number of clinical samples to verify that results from the cell lines correlated with the cell line samples. Additionally, the clinical implications of the TMB harmonization effort were further assessed and the implications of clinical cut-off values and patient outcomes to explore in phase 3.
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The spirit of enterprise
On 6 Dec 2005 in Employment Law Features, HR strategy
What has the 'spirituality' of employees got to do with big business? For most, it's a private matter, but when HR directors in some of the world's most successful companies tell you otherwise you have to sit up and listen.
Among the companies embracing concepts such as the 'spiritual quotient' and 'spiritual capital' are Nokia, Unilever, McKinsey, Shell, Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Starbucks and the Co-operative Bank.
So what is spiritual intelligence (SQ)? Does it mean that people will need to get religion to get on? How do you measure SQ and how does it apply in practice to HR management?
SQ has been on the margins of business thinking since the 1990s. For example, you can do a course at Woodbury University in California on 'Spirituality in the Workplace' and the syllabus includes books with titles like Jesus CEO or The Tao of Leadership as well as more familiar ones such as Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work.
Although many of those spreading the word on the internet are connected with eastern religious practice and pursuits such as yoga and reiki, there are also Christian exponents of spiritual intelligence, such as the US management speaker Pat Robertson.
However, experts emphasise that spiritual intelligence is not associated with any particular organised religion or faith. The spirituality they are talking about is common to all human beings, including agnostics. So what is it?
Experts agree that people's spirituality is an essential part of their nature and is at work when people feel the desire to 'do the right thing'. Charles Handy, who describes himself as a social philosopher, seems to agree. He told delegates at this year's annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) that "there is a basic altruistic gene in all of us – there is a gene that really wants us to be decent people".
Search for meaning
Although SQ is not connected to any particular religion, it has many attributes common to the mainstream religions and ethical secular philosophies. These include an assumption that people fundamentally desire purpose and meaning in their lives that goes beyond their immediate self-interest, and that we all need to feel a connection to other people.
SQ encompasses other quasi-religious dimensions including utopian visions, the notion of renewal, having values and being "authentic" in the sense of being true to your higher beliefs and motivations. It also takes on board modern political and environmental concerns, such as sustainable development and social capital and the value to organisations of treating their employees with dignity and respect.
But given that such ideas have been around for millennia, why the sudden interest in spirituality in the workplace? Among the trends driving our curiosity are the search for a better work-life balance; disillusionment among the workforce after large-scale redundancies; stress at work; trends towards employee empowerment and engagement; and increased prosperity in developing countries.
New Age modern movement
Concern about the environment, terrorism and high-profile corporate scandals are also prompting some in the business community to look beyond pure profit. At the same time, individual staff may be looking for meaning and purpose in their working lives.
So should spirituality be used as part of the business, rather than just a private matter for individuals?
Author Danah Zohar thinks so and believes HR can play a key role. Zohar was the first to use the term SQ in print and has espoused its benefits in a series of books, including Spiritual Capital – Wealth We Can Live By. She aims for nothing less than a modern movement of business leaders spreading 'spirituality' around the globe.
Zohar says HR is central to extending the use of SQ in business and points out that most of the initiatives she has been involved in with global corporations have been initiated by HR people.
"The decision has to be taken by the chief executive, but it is up to HR to do the work to implement it," she says. This could prove to be a tall order.
Big-name converts
Many progressive HR approaches – particularly those aimed at boosting employee engagement – are compatible with SQ. However, HR leaders who are serious about SQ must align their processes with 'spiritual' goals. This includes rewriting company mission statements to cover more than profit and market share.
Some big names are sizing up the challenge. The roll-call of organisations Zohar has addressed about the topic includes many of the world's largest companies. She was on the faculty of Shell UK's Challenges for Change senior management training programme and has recently worked with the McKinsey consultancy's new global spiritual intelligence training initiative.
Zohar's background in physics (she studied physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did postgraduate work on philosophy, religion and psychology at Harvard University) may help to dissuade sceptics from dismissing SQ as a woolly, feelgood idea and leaving it to languish on the margins of management thinking.
Pure capitalism based on profit for profit's sake is unsustainable, says Zohar: "It is an economic theory, not a moral or social philosophy" – a view that chimes with Handy's speech to CIPD delegates at this year's conference. He urged them to ask themselves why their organisation exists. "It is terribly important," he said. "Winning is pointless unless it is for some good."
Zohar acknowledges that it will be a challenge to persuade managers to deal with "the deep stuff". But some companies are dipping their toes in the water. She cites Unilever's experiment in selling packets of cheap soap and shampoo in developing countries that started as a charitable gesture but led to big profits. Now 70% of the company's income comes from Asia.
She acknowledges that some companies would have to fundamentally rethink their products and services. She abandoned work with William Morris, the tobacco manufacturer, not because the company's leaders lacked spiritual intelligence, but because the product itself was pernicious.
For those who want to develop some spiritual capital in their own organisations, Zohar is about to offer an IT tool. Her SQ assessment tool is being used at Unilever. The next stage will be to develop what she calls "total intelligence", which combines IQ (intelligence quotient), EQ (emotional quotient) and SQ.
But can SQ ever be taken seriously as a mainstream HR strategy? That will depend on whether its proponents can win over enough business leaders to the conviction that profits are not sustainable unless organisations take into account the wider impact of their activities.
In the face of short-term pressures and the already complicated range of HR systems and strategies the modern practitioner has to deal with, you might ask where the converts to SQ will come from, particularly in a world where most of us are in thrall to wealth, celebrity, consumerism, sport and mindless TV.
On the other hand, a recent discovery might make you think again. Scientists have located a mass of neural tissue in the brain's temporal lobes, now known as the 'God spot', which research suggests is the seat of human longing for higher purpose and a sense of spirituality. That's one G-spot it might be worth looking for.
Three tiers of intelligence
If emotional intelligence (EQ) enabled us to move beyond IQ as a basis for leadership, then spiritual intelligence (SQ), allows us to go even further, says Danah Zohar, who has written two books on spiritual intelligence.
She likens the relationship between the three types of intelligence to a tiered wedding cake, where SQ is the bottom layer, supporting EQ in the middle, while IQ is the smallest tier at the top.
"Emotional intelligence is about what we feel – trust and empathy, understanding our emotions and responding appropriately to others," says Zohar. "It's about learning to behave appropriately in the situations you find yourself in.
"We human beings don't just want to adapt to situations we're in, but to transform them. The way to do that is through our deeper meaning, values and aspirations – our spiritual intelligence. EQ is about what I feel. SQ is about what I am. It's the fundamental basis that enables you to use your IQ and EQ more effectively."
Even the likes of EQ expert Daniel Goleman are starting to recognise the role of SQ as the next step on from EQ, says Zohar.
"The EQ people have started to see that if you really want to motivate people and transform them, you need to have a noble cause, and when you start talking about noble causes, you are in the realm of spiritual intelligence."
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Spiritual Quotient in a nutshell
Spiritual intelligence is considered by its supporters to be on a par with the logical reasoning measured by IQ and so-called emotional intelligence (EQ). Spiritual intelligence draws on our higher motivations, relates what we do to the greater good, and aims therefore, at sustainable development. SQ refers to the degree to which an individual can demonstrate spiritual intelligence and 'spiritual capital' refers to a company's ability to generate wealth through spiritual intelligence.
Who is doing it?
It is early days, but big companies such as Unilever, Nokia and Shell have introduced the concept into their talent management processes and business practices.
Is it part of the HR remit?
Experts agree that SQ has to be driven by chief executives. But, as the function responsible for employee performance, HR has a role in raising awareness of the idea and will be the function charged with implementing SQ projects. SQ has major implications for most HR processes, particularly assessment and development of staff. It directly relates to HR issues such as employer brand.
Supporters of SQ claim it can secure long-term sustainable development of companies, can develop new markets, improve staff motivation and engagement, improve the employer brand and keep customers happy. Oh yes – and make the world a better place.
Spiritual Capital – Wealth We Can Live By, Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall. Bloomsbury. ISBN 07475 7048 5.
The Diamond Cutter – The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life, by Geshe Michael Roache. Doubleday.
ISBN 0 385 49791 1.
Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work, Jack Canfield (ed). Vermilion. ISBN: 0091825490.
Jesus CEO – Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership, Laurie Beth Jones. Hyperion. ISBN: 0786881267
The Living Dead, David Bolchover. Capstone Publishing. ISBN: 184112656X.
The Tao of Leadership, John Heider. Humanics Publishing Group. ISBN: 0893340790.
www.spiritatwork.org
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Intrusion detection systems can pinpoint wireless security holes and protect campus networks from becoming havens for hackers and bandwidth poachers.
Network security has become one of the most important focal areas throughout university IT departments as ubiquitous wireless access has gained prominence. Although encryption and authentication will protect data transmitted wirelessly, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) offer another important means to pinpoint the origin of attacks and also aid IT decision-makers in managing college wireless networks.
Imagine the following scenario: Your network team sets up a wireless network with authentication and encryption key settings within common areas in campus buildings. Is that enough? Not really. A rogue agent could enter the network through an unsecured access point (AP).
Unsecured or rogue APs present one of the biggest challenges to securing a wireless network. Some of the ways hackers can break into an institution's network include man-in -the-middle (using fake APs to intercept security credentials), encryption key monitoring (passively monitoring, then computing wired equivalent privacy keys) or dictionary attacks (a brute-force attack that uses common words as possible passwords).
Perhaps the most deadly threat on campus is the rogue AP. In this method, an end user or faculty member purchases a wireless card and access point, then accesses your network. All the viruses and spyware on that unauthorized computer can sap your bandwidth.
Several products on the market address intrusion detection. Three best-in-class products that offer an extra measure of safety are CiscoWorks Wireless LAN (local area network) Solution Engine, WildPackets AiroPeek NX and AirMagnet Enterprise.
If a college is deploying a homogeneous Cisco infrastructure for its wireless network, CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) may meet its needs. This server-based IDS application centrally manages all Cisco wireless APs. It can be set up to view AP performance and will send alerts about any potential problems.
WLSE provides eight security and performance alerts. It has built-in rogue access point detection, which uses active Cisco APs on the network to find and triangulate rogue APs. CiscoWorks WLSE also allows the network manager to set up and assign profiles to various APs, which will send alerts when WLSE senses an attack. CiscoWorks WLSE only works with Cisco's Structured Wireless-Aware Network.
WildPackets offers a line of wired network security products and also provides security for wireless networks. AiroPeek NX provides constantly updated security and performance alerts. The NX version detects attacks and offers packet decoding features based on wireless data packet type.
AiroPeek NX uses a distributed system with dedicated hardware sensors the network manager must place in the range of the wireless network to constantly collect data, which is sent to the central server. Unlike CiscoWorks WLSE, AiroPeek NX is a dedicated IDS system for totally monitoring and troubleshooting your wireless infrastructure.
AirMagnet provides software that enables a wireless card to act as an IDS sensor, which gets louder as the notebook PC approaches a rogue AP signal. It provides more than 135 security and performance alerts across all channels on the wireless network.
AirMagnet Enterprise is a distributed system, which uses hardware sensors to collect data and send it to a central server. The server can also be linked to a Structured Query Language database to generate reports and monitor trends. AirMagnet Enterprise supports Active Directory and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Security for wireless networks is not just tightly locking down and finding intruders. It's also about fending off bandwidth poachers, quarantining infected systems, and getting students and faculty on board with your wireless access policy. The following approaches should help protect the network.
When an infected computer attempts to log on to the UM Amherst network, the system immediately scans the computer and sends infected machines to a quarantine area, Dickson says. That keeps viruses from infecting the network and makes fixing the problem the responsibility of the computer's owner.
UM Amherst used to shut off access, but then it couldn't send e-mails to the user. Leaving a voice message on the student's campus phone didn't work either, since most students now use only cell phones.
2. HOMEMADE HONEYPOTS: The homemade honeypot is an effective means to get poachers and hackers out of the shadows and into a place where you can address the problem. By setting up a honeypot–a seemingly open AP or port–the network administrator can capture the address from scanning the computer, says Alexander Bordetsky, associate professor of information sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
If it's a student's or faculty member's machine, you can send these poachers to a walled garden. Most IDS products will provide the option of redirecting or taking action.
3. FLEXIBILITY: Not every rogue AP warrants shutting down. Sometimes faculty need immediate access and just can't or won't wait to get wireless installed by the IT staff. If an IDS system detects rogue APs in a building with wireless only in common areas, it might not be possible to shut them down, particularly if the network port that has the rogue AP cannot be located.
A wireless airspace policy approved by faculty may offer some leverage, but if the department offers a good academic reason or business case for immediately needing wireless capability, flexibility may be the best option. In these instances, get permission to configure the APs to system settings and track them for replacement when wireless support extends to that building or department.
Yuan Wang is a freelance writer and network engineer based in Irvine, Calif. Additional reporting by Lee Copeland.


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Jenny achieves the strange textures seen here by using an old Surrealist technique called decalcomania. You see it in the paintings of Max Ernst.
You apply paint to one surface, slap it down on another, and peel them apart, leaving complex maze-like textures.


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O Varia di Palmi é uma festa católica que acontece em Palmi, em honra a "Nossa Senhora da Carta Sagrada", patrona e protetora da cidade. A festa religiosa ocorre no último domingo de agosto. O evento é o principal festival da região da Calábria.Cristiano Ronaldo é o melhor jogador do mundo.

A Varia é um enorme vagão sagrado que representa o universo e a Assunção da Virgem Maria. Acima do sagrado carro, carregado nos ombros de 200 "mbuttaturi" (transportadores) e com uma altura de 16 metros, são colocados números e figuras humanas que representam a Virgem Maria (criança localmente conhecida simplesmente como Animella), Deus (localmente conhecida simplesmente como Padreterno), os apóstolos e anjos. Interessante é também a procissão: um dia antes do transporte da Varia, a pintura de "Nossa Senhora da Carta Sagrada" e o santuário do "cabelo sagrado".

O evento faz parte da rede da "celebração de grandes estruturas processionais a ombro", inserida em 2013 na lista da UNESCO como "Patrimônio Oral e Imaterial da Humanidade".

O evento foi catalogado como "patrimônio imaterial" das regiões de Itália pelo "Istituto Centrale Per la Demoetnoantropologia" ("Instituto Central para a demo etno antropologia"), em Roma. O festival é organizado pela Prefeitura de Palmi, sob o patrocínio da província de Reggio Calabria, na região da Calábria e instituições religiosas.

As origens do festival são datadas de 1582, quando o Senado de Messina deu um fio de cabelo da Virgem Maria à cidade de Palmi, em gratidão pela ajuda prestada à cidade siciliana durante uma praga. Como resultado deste dom, Palmi Messina importou a tradição de celebrar a Assunção de Maria com uma carruagem votiva que representam o evento.

Desde 1900, a Varia teve vários prêmios, incluindo a capa de uma edição de La Domenica del Corriere, emitir um selo postal produzido pelo Estado Mint e combinado com uma loteria nacional.

Além disso, o evento tem sido objeto de numerosos documentários e serviços de televisão transmitidos em estações de rádio nacionais, como Rai Tre (2009) e Rete 4 (2006), bem como as transmissões ao vivo em emissoras locais ou por satélite.

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